VS: Form Submit & Passing Post Data to Action with JSON Plugin

[Christer Gjerstad <ch...@idemand.no>]

> Hi, 
> 
> I have a page with some seach criteria for the user to specify. The result
> of the search will be displayed on another page which will be rendered
> using Dojo script and Json result, using the JSON plugin. 
> 
> In the book "Practical Apache Struts2 Web 2.0 projects" written by Ian
> Roughley (Great book by the way!). There is an example, chapter 10, for
> handling JSON results from actions with a Dojo script which does not pass
> any input data to the action, which is the case I am trying to do.
> 
> So, I have one seach page with a form submitting this with post method to
> a pass-throug action in the same package(defined in struts.xml). The
> pass-through action has a result to the a jsonResult.jsp page where a Dojo
> script is calling the action doing the seach to the business layer and
> returning a JSON result. Please see below for more info. My problem is
> that the post data is not passed into the action class calling the
> business layer and returning the JSON result. 
> 
> I have search the Web for any ideas or solutions but cannot find anything.
> 
> 
> How can I get the post data from the search form to the productsJsonResult
> action? Do I have to capture the post data from the request and handle
> that in the Dojo script? Should't the param interceptor handle this? 
> 
> I would appreciate any help in this matter! :-) 
> 
> 
> Here are the packages and actions.
> 
> 
> Flow: Submit Search -> productSearchResult action invoked ->
> productSearchJsonResult.jsp called -> Dojo script calling
> productsJsonResult action and handling html rendering.
> 
> 
> 
> <package name="flights" namespace="/products" extends="struts-default">
> 
> 	
> 	<!-- ProductSearch Action -->	
> 	<action name="productSearch"
> class="com.demand.product.ProductSearch">
> 		<result>/jsp/product/productSearch.jsp</result>
> 	</action>		
> 	
> 	<!-- ProductSearchResult Action -->		
> 	<action name="productSearchResult"
> class="com.demand.product.BaseProductAction">			
> 		<result name="input">/jsp/product/productSearch.jsp</result>
> 
> 		<result>/jsp/product/productSearchJsonResult.jsp</result>
> 	</action>
> 		
> </package>
> 		
> 	
> <package name="jsonProducts" namespace="/json/products"
> extends="json-default">
> 				
> 	<default-interceptor-ref name="json"/>
> 			
> 	<action name="productsJsonResult"
> class="com.demand.product.ProductSearchResults">	
> 		<result type="json">
> 			<param name="root">products</param>
> 		</result>		
> 	</action>	
> 		
> </package>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> With kind regards 
> 
> Christer Gjerstad 
> 
> 
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